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Looking for a Job? Here is the one statistic that matters the most

Frank Abrams — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:13:49 +0000

Typically people apply for jobs in one of two ways. They send in an online application based on a posted job opportunity, or they take advantage of their network of connections and send in their resume. In either case, a job seeker should keep track of every time they apply for a job. Why?

Looking for a Job? Here is the one statistic that matters the most is a post from: zenPeak

The Impact of Lacking Self-Esteem on Business Professionals

External Contributor — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:50:15 +0000

Many very successful business people lack self-esteem in some areas of their lives. Perhaps they feel socially challenged or they have difficulty establishing close or intimate relationships. Perhaps they experience low self-esteem with regard to their physical appearance or their health. Perhaps they are not having any fun in their lives, maybe devoting too much attention to their work. Many “successful” people are driven to succeed.

The Impact of Lacking Self-Esteem on Business Professionals is a post from: zenPeak

Self-Esteem: The #1 Ingredient Essential for Happiness, Success, and Fulfillment

External Contributor — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:41:43 +0000

High SELF-ESTEEM is the Prerequisite for fulfillment, happiness, accomplishment, for developing respect and empathy for others, for taking responsibility for making our lives work. It is necessary for self-motivation, positive expectation, to effectively deal with challenges, and to expect to overcome problems. You must love yourself to be able to love others. Low Self-Esteem is often associated with criminal behavior, drug & alcohol addiction, violence, eating disorders, school drop outs, low socio-economic status, aggressive, egotistical, harmful, and defensive behavior

Self-Esteem: The #1 Ingredient Essential for Happiness, Success, and Fulfillment is a post from: zenPeak

The Impact of Low Self-Esteem on Seniors

External Contributor — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:22:16 +0000

Other seniors berate themselves for lacking the skills they think they need to be of contribution to society or find meaningful ways to occupy their time. Too often, many settle for what they consider to be demeaning jobs just to pass the time and provide a few extra dollars to help with a retirement that requires they live on a fraction of what was not enough during their earlier, working years. By holding themselves in low regard, they minimize their value to others and settle for less than they would have if their self-image were higher.

The Impact of Low Self-Esteem on Seniors is a post from: zenPeak

Self-Esteem by Dr. Joe Rubino

External Contributor — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:45:31 +0000

Studies show that at least 85% or more of the world’s people suffer from some degree of lacking self-esteem. Although one might think that such challenges are only characteristic of the poor, uneducated, or lower socio-economic members of society, people from all walks of life can suffer situational or more widespread challenges with their levels of self-esteem.

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Avoid Mind Traps

External Contributor — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:54:47 +0000

When things go wrong, do you automatically blame yourself or others? Jump to conclusions? Mind Traps place us in a very small self-limiting place of thinking. Pay attention to your beliefs.

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Looking for Work? 10 ways to build your resilience

External Contributor — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:35:04 +0000

Keeping ourselves positively focused, and effective, can be a large challenge in achieving positive outcomes during a job search. This article provides 10 useful skills to help us deepen and widen our capacity to improve our performance. Resiliency is all about helping people learn how to be more successful dealing with adversity. Here are ten skills that can help you build your resiliency during an active career search. Theses skills will help you to stay focused and lower your risk of getting stuck.

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Resiliency during an active career search

External Contributor — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:25:32 +0000

For zenPeak, I’m sharing 10 ways you can build your resiliency during an active career search. Theses skills will help you to stay focused and lower your risk of getting stuck. Looking for Work? Here are 10 ways to Build your Resilience & tips to avoid "Mind Traps"

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Waking up with Munchkin

Frank Abrams — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:58:12 +0000

... When the other resident was being packed up to leave the residence, Bing took Munchkin in for a few days so she would be out of the way. Wow there was new excitement for Oshie and Bing! It was apparent for awhile that Munchkin needed an “owner” who could look after her, but as things went, the offer to take care of Munchkin was declined, and everyone said their goodbyes. Bye Bye Munchkin!

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The One Minute Rule

Frank Abrams — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:49:46 +0000

So for us, The One Minute Rule on the phone is being polite, not brushing someone off, listening and suggesting a next step. When we spend that time, we may be talking to a star Candidate for the 1st time; someone who a Client can hire to help grow their business. Its in our best interest too!

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The Story of Your Work Life

Frank Abrams — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:08:16 +0000

the most important thing you can do, within our system. In our face to face meeting we ask you to think about the 2 or 3 major success stories we've talked about, and write up short paragraphs (3-4 sentences max) on each. These success stories capture the interest of the reader; in this case a hiring manager. Once you have their attention, they will look deeper into "What You Can Do For Them" in the organization.

The Story of Your Work Life is a post from: zenPeak

Creating a great LinkedIn profile! for the Senior Executive

Quin Blake — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:31:22 +0000

Recruiters are on LinkedIn everyday searching for excellent Candidates to fill their positions. The more complete your profile is, the easier it will be for them to find you. But it's not just Recruiters that may be looking. School alumni and past colleagues are excellent avenues for networking, as well as joining groups to connect with peers. The more involved you are, the more prevalent your profile will be in searches - not only in LinkedIn, but also from other search engines.

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Creating a great LinkedIn profile! for a mid-career job seeker

Quin Blake — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:48:30 +0000

How's your profile photo? Do you even have one? Is it up to date? Do you look happy? Presentable? A picture really is worth a thousand words and more profiles get looked at when a picture is included. Exposure is key when you're looking for a new career opportunity. Make sure your status accurately describes that you are looking for work & what type of position you're looking for within your preferred industry(ies). examples...

Creating a great LinkedIn profile! for a mid-career job seeker is a post from: zenPeak

The Referral Dilemma

Queleigh Boyd — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:23:34 +0000

... due diligence when hiring, regardless whether they have a program in place or not, this means investing the time to ensure every candidate is the right fit and this means going through the resume, calling the references, doing an EQ check and the full interview process. The problem with ERP’s are the resumes at the top of the pile are often ill-placed, wasting a lot of time, effort, man power and money going through the wrong candidates.

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Creating a Great LinkedIn Profile! for the College Graduate

Quin Blake — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:46:31 +0000

This is where your networking kicks into high gear. Let's start with your profile photo. Choose a picture that can project you into the business role you're seeking.

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Your Resume STINKS!

Queleigh Boyd — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:37:46 +0000

When a employer is looking through a stack of resumes they don’t want to see what you have done; they want to see within seconds..... what you can do for them.

Your Resume STINKS! is a post from: zenPeak

The Top 3 Ways to Catch a Resume Liar #3

Aliya Janson — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:35:47 +0000

The face to face interview provides the interviewer with the opportunity to obtain detailed information about the job candidate’s feelings, perceptions, and opinions while being in the position of clarifying any ambiguities in their responses and pressing for answers to incomplete responses.

The Top 3 Ways to Catch a Resume Liar #3 is a post from: zenPeak

The Top 3 Ways to Catch a Resume Liar #2

Aliya Janson — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:32:41 +0000

... screening method that zenPeak utilizes and puts much weight, time and effort on when identifying top performers to present to our Clients.

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The Top 3 Ways to Catch a Resume Liar #1

Aliya Janson — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:56:20 +0000

A Candidate that scores high on emotional intelligence can communicate effectively, successfully handle changes and their own impulses, are much better at problem solving, and are capable of using humor to build rapport in stressful situations.

The Top 3 Ways to Catch a Resume Liar #1 is a post from: zenPeak

#1 tip for quickly growing your LinkedIn network

Frank Abrams — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:19:12 +0000

If you are on LinkedIn, and committed to expanding your connections, spending time in groups can be a good start to meet industry 'players" and to reach out to new business contacts.

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Questions to ask at the end of your Job Interview

Frank Abrams — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:39:40 +0000

Your job interview is over, and it went on for a long time, and you think its a match! Sometimes this is true, but more often than not, a long interview doesn’t mean you have the job. Many Candidates have told us the interview went on for a long time and was great, and when [...]

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Are Transferable Skills & Experience more important than Industry Expertise?

Frank Abrams — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:32:46 +0000

Breakout growth companies are usually started by industry outsiders. They change the rules and thrive on destroying the old ways of doing things. As they grow, and hire, founders don’t surround themselves with industry veterans – that would not be a recipe for disruption and innovation. As the saying goes about amazing innovative companies… “too [...]

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What I Can Do For You! TEDx speaker Charlie Hoehn has some good ideas here

Frank Abrams — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:43:18 +0000

This video is directed to new college graduates, but Charlie has good advice for everyone struggling to find work. Its a good strategy for mid-career people who are not getting interviews after dozens or hundreds of job applications. Offer a lower risk way to a decision-maker to showcase… What I Can Do For You! What [...]

What I Can Do For You! TEDx speaker Charlie Hoehn has some good ideas here is a post from: zenPeak

How the company got its name … zenPeak (the very short version)

Frank Abrams — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 12:14:43 +0000

The difference between our company, and most other Recruiters is that we try and keep our Candidates and our Clients “in balance”. Work, and having a job, is very important for a person’s self-worth. It is not easy being out of a job, or to be looking for a job. We respect those challenges for [...]

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Why Use a Recruiter? Part 2 of 2

Quin Blake — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:34:19 +0000

Last month I wrote about the benefits of using a good recruiter from the Client’s point of view http://zenpeak.com/2012/08/30/why-use-a-recruiter-part-1-of-2/ Now it’s time to share why, as a Candidate, you should find a proficient recruiter to assist you in your search for your next career opportunity. Make sure you use a reputable recruiter. If you’re not [...]

Why Use a Recruiter? Part 2 of 2 is a post from: zenPeak

Matchmaker Matchmaker

Frank Abrams — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:50:50 +0000

For many of us in western society, the idea of meeting your spouse on your wedding day is ridiculous (and very frightening). Maybe the fear is strongest when your Mother or Father is the one setting up the love connection. Many traditional societies recognized the downside of having Mom and Dad setup the marriage so [...]

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Why Use A Recruiter? Part 1 of 2

Quin Blake — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:34:35 +0000

A recruiter’s purpose is to match the right Candidate with the right position. Our job is to fill our Clients’ needs and find Candidates employment. Plain and simple, that’s what we do. How we go about it is what makes each day interesting and different from the next. Good recruiters are always looking for opportunities, [...]

Why Use A Recruiter? Part 1 of 2 is a post from: zenPeak

Highest Paying Canadian Jobs

Frank Abrams — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:29:15 +0000

Do you have a passion for engineering? What about investment banking? Or even medicine? Well if you do, then you’re lucky enough to have chosen one of the highest paying careers in Canada! Is loving what you do important? Yes… and having a high salary doesn’t hurt either! To find out the 7 other highest [...]

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Good vs Great

Frank Abrams — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:12:59 +0000

Are you a good candidate, or a great candidate? Do you take any job you can get or do you evaluate your opportunities to ensure a proper fit? It’s not about answering the questions the right way but rather asking the right questions which show your potential employer that you’re the one for the job! [...]

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Is Facebook Costing You Money?

Frank Abrams — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:21:21 +0000

As an employer your goal is to increase productivity of your employees so that you can make more money – but will blocking Facebook really make that big of a difference? Social media isn’t the biggest time waster – says Recruiter.com – it’s computer glitches that rein number one! So, before you decide to eliminate [...]

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when you do it… everything gets easier

Frank Abrams — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:42:10 +0000

“We need to celebrate the candidate in the recruitment process” http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/hro/news/1073271/its-type-recruitment-autodesks-head-emea-talent-acquisition After I circulated this article to the people working with me at zenPeak, it only took a few minutes for the excited comments to come back to me. The zenPeak approach is to “Internalize Candidates“ It’s a fundamental part of our process and when [...]

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The #1 Job Interview Question (and by the way… it’s very hard to answer!)

Frank Abrams — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:06:37 +0000

Are you ready for the #1 question you are likely to be asked? OK here it is… ??? Tell Me About Yourself ??? The #1 question is not easy to answer UNLESS you are prepared so PRACTICE in front of the mirror over and over until your answer lasts about 20 – 30 seconds at [...]

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the top 3 ways to spot a resume liar

Frank Abrams — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:33:58 +0000

over 53% of people lie on their resumes! The resume. Fact or Fiction? Here are the top 3 ways to discover if the person you are considering to hire is a resume liar. These 3 ways are part of the process we use in recruiting. Let’s go through a few of the steps we use. [...]

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The zenPeak system makes a difference

Frank Abrams — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:19:48 +0000

How does the up-front & high-value zenPeak system ensure that the Candidate will succeed in their new job at a Client company? Candidates use (numeric) results-oriented functional style resumes that showcase “What They Can Do for You”. We remove soft language and showcase their transferable skills and experience. This makes your evaluation of Candidates easier, [...]

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How can we have such low fees… and still be awesome?

Frank Abrams — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:25:48 +0000

We have low fees by using a system that is efficient, up-front and high-value. We can’t imagine working for weeks on a recruiting assignment on speculation; rushing to send in the resumes of Candidates we may not have even met or fully screened, because the focus is on getting the placement, not recruiting a peak [...]

How can we have such low fees… and still be awesome? is a post from: zenPeak

Telephone Marketing – The High Road

Frank Abrams — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:56:36 +0000

We don`t need a study or focus group to tell us that traditional telephone marketing can be offensive, and that canned scripts don`t work very well. Hiring low paid offshore workers is short-sighted as the people these telephone marketers are calling, may be sitting at home grumbling about not having a job, because some offshore [...]

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2010 – a good year but sad too

Frank Abrams — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:58:50 +0000

In 2010 we were busy… … with training new marketing and search associates, working on some great new job opportunities, working on the oppcourse to Get Working NOW!, planning the new “Marketing Services by zenPeak Recruiters”, plus plus plus! Personally its been a very good year. The business is growing the way I want it [...]

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OppCourse

Frank Abrams — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:48:47 +0000

I went back and forth on names for the Online Course for a long time: Should the name be… “Create Your Own Opportunity” OR “Get Working NOW!”? Both names do a good job of describing our unique free course to help those people who are struggling to get work. The course is now a little [...]

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Good Vibrations for the right Candidate

Frank Abrams — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:03:43 +0000

Just got a new position to work on and its very exciting for someone truly entrepreneurial and flexible and loves change and excitement! The company is growing like crazy with a hot new health and wellness technology and equipment business. ISO certified with a solid ownership team w. decades of business experience. Please have a [...]

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Check out this html5 experimental film – use google chrome browser

Frank Abrams — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:55:23 +0000

A diversion from recruiting and business building today… shhhh First download the google chrome browser here if you don’t have it, and then check out this experimental & interactive video (you can save your version at the end). The Wilderness Downtown More on html5 here (a presentation that goes into a lot of detail on [...]

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